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" I bought tiny infant onesies while still in college and compiled a killer toy collection throughout my 20s and 30s. "
Kara Swisher
Toy
Collection
College
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" Is a family just the strict definition of a small and discrete unit, or is it about the larger organic group that inevitably grows up around the smaller one? "
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" Unlike the messier MySpace, Facebook has a cleaner and easier-to-customize interface and is much more, as Zuckerberg once described it to me, 'utilitarian.' I would call it useful and more relevant than other competitors, and a white-label version would likely be a hit. "
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" Casting my fate to the heavens, quite literally, I decided to go wireless. Completely wireless. All wireless, all the time, everywhere. "
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" Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom. "
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" It's not all silliness, as interactive SXSW is filled with aggressive learning, discussing, and a whole lot of futurizing. "
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" I have found, writing a blog, that being non-opaque is necessary. You pretty much have to say what you know in much more firm terms or risk that the legions who always know more than you do will tell the story better. "
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" For the record, my mother is an astonishing and loving grandmother. "
Kara Swisher
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Record
Grandmother
" Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry. "
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iPhone
Despite
" I always find something interesting on Twitter that leads me somewhere else. "
Kara Swisher
Somewhere
Always
Find
" 'On demand' is more than just a series of clicks on your still-too-complicated remote control. In fact, it is now the best way to describe what the cable industry - from programmers to content makers to distributors - imagine their world is. Services and content available to very demanding consumers, wherever, whenever, however. "
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World
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" A Microsoft-Yahoo merger is a deal only an investment banker could love. "
Kara Swisher
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" My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day. "
Kara Swisher
Father
Moment
Tomorrow
" My telephone manners were, well, offensive to some. As I lugged my cell around, yammering away, I noticed cold stares from passersby who viewed me as a kind of techno-terrorist, or at least incredibly rude. "
Kara Swisher
Kind
Me
Rude
" I don't think you can look at my history and say they love me to death in Silicon Valley. "
Kara Swisher
Love Me
Love
Me
" Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will. "
Kara Swisher
Myself
Home
Think
" Sure, I am funny and have a good sense of humor. Mostly, though, I just tell the truth. The internal dialogue people have in their heads - I just write it. "
Kara Swisher
Truth
I Am
Humor
" I think things can surprise you. I mean, I loved Instagram from the minute it started, but I think it surprised a lot of people how quickly it got huge. "
Kara Swisher
Think
You
Got
" While it is often true that the enemy of my enemy is my friend, it seems like Yahoo's almost obsessive focus on Google is taking away from its other businesses. "
Kara Swisher
Enemy
Focus
Friend
" Dr. Louis Bush Swisher died from the complications of a brain aneurysm that burst without warning one sunny Sunday morning less than 40 years ago. "
Kara Swisher
Brain
Sunday
Sunny
" While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow. "
Kara Swisher
Traffic
Audience
Debate
" People are worried about what's going to happen to journalism - and they should be. Every day, the blogosphere is getting better and print media is getting worse; you have to be an idiot not to see that. "
Kara Swisher
Journalism
People
Media
" It is hard to look away from the swirl of media that the untimely and tragic death of Heath Ledger has engendered, and the Internet has jacked the frenzy into overdrive. "
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Death
Internet
Look
" No matter how young you are, you're too old for SXSW. "
Kara Swisher
Old
How
Matter
" It's easy to forget the ever-plodding eBay with all the noise made by the more lithe and lively Web 2.0 companies. "
Kara Swisher
Noise
Web
Forget
" I, for one, am pretty exhausted since I started blogging almost a year ago. But I am blaming that on my two sons, aged 3 and 6, whose perpetual-motion-machine energy is hard to keep up with at my advanced age. "
Kara Swisher
Energy
Year
Age
" I think the way to be an influential journalist is to be accurate and to be fair and to get things right and to really characterize things in an honest way, versus being really snarky or cheerleading. "
Kara Swisher
Honest
Think
Way
" Now I am not against widgets, those small third-party applications that people can put on their Web pages on social networks like Facebook and MySpace, in general. "
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Web
Small
Facebook
" Having a baby had always seemed the easiest and most natural thing to do, and I had never felt - even in my most furtive days of coming out - that being gay would mean I could not become a mother. "
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Always
Baby
Mother
" With giant sites like Facebook and MySpace becoming as generic as Yahoo and AOL of old, more and more sites will be looking for an edge by drilling down deeply to serve a highly targeted audience. "
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Will
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Audience
" BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart. "
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